Summary of the Developer Blog editorial meeting on 5 December 2024

Summary of the WordPress Developer Blogblog (versus network, site) meeting, which took place in the  #core-dev-blog channel on the Make WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/.. Start of the meeting in Slack.

Attendees: @ndiego @areziaal, @webcommsat (async) @bcworkz (async) @milana_cap (async) @oglekler (async) and @bph (facilitator).

Last meeting notes: Summary of the Developer Blog editorial meeting on 7 November 2024

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Updates on the site

Updates

• The first Snippet async meeting was held on November 20/21. Here is the list of approved Snippets added to our to-do-list
  • Snippet: How to filter the output of a Block Binding WordPress/developer-blog-content#345
  • Snippet: How to lock blocks and prevent your users from unlocking them WordPress/developer-blog-content#344
  • Snippet: Reorder and Rename Block Categories WordPress/developer-blog-content#343
• Last month’s disrupted GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ process is fixed again
•  Reminder: The January meeting to Jan. 9th, 2025 at 13:00 UTC, due to Holiday season.

Newly published posts since last meeting

Since the last meeting, we published the following articles

• What’s new for developers? (November 2024)  by @ndiego, reviewed by@welcher @greenshady and @bph
• Snippet: How to disable heading levels in the Editor by @ndiego, reviewed by @areziaal and @bph
• Snippet: How to disable the Font Library by @greenshady reviewed by @ and @welcher
• Bridging the gap: Hybrid themes by @areziaal reviewed by @greenshady @ndiego and @bph

Huge Thank You to the writer and reviewers! Awesome work around!

Project status

The project board for Developer Blog content is on GitHub.

Closed, not planned. 

Not all good ideas come to fruition. Sometimes plans just don’t work out.  After some conversation, the following issues/discussions were closed: 

• Share change in process for agencies building sites with the site editor
• Case Study: How Pew Research Center is using the interactivity api to use blocks as interactive components

In review

• Optimizing your WP_Query queries for better performance
• Create Figma designs for WordPress Block Theme
• Snippet: Reorder and Rename Block Categories

In progress

• Performance best practices
• Why you might not need a child theme
• Customizing and extending the Formatting Toolbar
• How to build a theme demo with WP Playground blueprints (blocked by a bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.)
• How to build light/dark mode with theme.json
• Tutorial on how to create custom components
• An overview of available directives for the Interactivity API
• Extending the Query Loop default fields
• Snippet: To create a full circle button (style)
• Snippet: How to lock blocks and prevent your users from unlocking them,

On the to-do-list, assigned to writers

• Overview of the coding standards tooling available to WordPress developers
• Classic themes: tutorial on moving away from widgets to template parts (back to the to-do column as we assigned it to a different writer. Thank you to @Troy Chaplin for stepping up to the plate)
• How to customize WordPress embeds to match your theme
• Tour Guide for First-time writers on the Developer Blog=
• Creating a low-code block theme development workflow with WordPress Playground and the Create Block Theme plugin
• Exploring post formats in a block theme world (maybe with 6.7 additions)
• Tutorial on integrating custom blocks with Write mode
• How to style block themes without using JSON

We have approved topics that still require a writer:

• Migrate classic sidebars and widgets to block for themers
• React best practices and pitfalls
• Extending User profile views natively with DataViews
• How to create and run automated tests for WordPress blocks #269
• Linting all things in IDE – the ultimate doc

If you know someone who could tackle any of those topics, please comment on the particular issue

New topics approved

• How to build and design blocks for consistent dev and user experiences
• Snippet: How to register a block variation but hide it from the inserter
• Snippet: Programmatically change the View mode in the block/site editor

There was no Open Floor discussion

• Next Editorial Group meeting January 9th, 2025, at 13:00 UTC .
• Next Async Snippet Approval meeting on January 22/23, 2025

Both happening in the #core-dev-blog channel

#dev-blog

#meeting, #summary